App Scammer Alert: Gulf Apps

We have noticed a lot of Arabic developers who are currently scamming App Store customers. They have been active for months and Apple has done nothing about them. This Arabic forum post is warning from the following 3 developers: zvoid, a.d.h media and gulf apps.

I looked into one of these developers, Gulf Apps and the first thing we noticed is that their apps leads to a website that doesn’t exist http://www.gulf.apps.com/.

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Comment chaos in this app. Apple should easily track them by IP to verify that some of the commenters were the same person. As for the app it’s extremely ugly and unusable, something Apple would easily reject it if their reviewers even understood Arabic.

Conclusion

Almost all of the other apps by “Gulf Apps” appear to be of extreme low quality and possibly violating some copyright.

Our advice is to avoid all Apps by “Gulf Apps” at once.

Also we need to report this to Apple at once so send an email to iTunes Connect: itunesconnect@apple.com and alert them of that scammer.

We also recommend avoiding apps by “ZVOID” and “A.D.H. Media” until we look into these ppps at once.

Apple also needs to improve their app review process and hire Arabic speaking reviewers if they want to allow only high quality apps in the app store.

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2 comments

Sindbad Adventures says it PROVIDES full episodes and that it does. It doesn’t say anywhere that all the videos are within the app. So as a matter of fact, it provides you with the links that in return provide you the videos. The price tag is a bit out of line though.